Chapter 22 Skills and Perfection
Through the introduction of a middleman from the brokerage firm, Lu Bian rented a remote courtyard on the outskirts of Tokyo to live in.

He was a little reluctant to part with the donkey that had accompanied him all the way.

If you live alone, you don't need to rent a house with a yard on the roadside.

"Stubborn donkey, you must be very grateful to your master."

Talking to the donkey by the roadside.

"I'm quite fond of your donkey. Its hair is shiny and glossy, and it's fatter and stronger than any donkey I see on the street or working in the workshop. The dealer asked me if I would sell you, but I refused immediately."

The stupid donkey looked at the roadside and hummed twice. It couldn't understand what the owner of the roadside said to it.

I didn't dare leave the donkey alone at home. I had just arrived in Tokyo and was unfamiliar with the place, so it would be easy for thieves to come. So I took the donkey with me every time I went out.

He didn't want to challenge the security situation in the capital of the Song Dynasty.

After living in Tokyo for four or five days, Lubian got familiar with the area around his residence and several important markets and streets. After getting familiar with the environment, Lubian started looking for a job.

You can't always rely on the "relief" given by the brothers in the chat group to make a living. Working steadily to earn money will make you feel more at ease.

He has a donkey by the roadside; he is not a proletarian.

With the help of his stubborn donkey, he could get some daily-paid cargo transport jobs at the port of Tokyo and earn a few dozen coins at a time.

A copper coin was worth one cent, and a bowl of mutton offal soup at a night market in Tokyo at night cost twenty cents. The money he earned after a busy day was only enough to buy two or three bowls of mutton offal soup... and that was on days when there was plenty of work to do.

He was a stranger on the street, and he had no acquaintances in Tokyo who could vouch for him. It was already good enough for him to find a job as a hauler, and because the goods only needed to be transported within the city, the loaders and unloaders also accompanied him.

He has seen the income from manual labor.

As a person who had little social experience in the past, even Lubian himself was surprised that he could successfully take root in the city of Tokyo.

Maybe it's because they don't have to worry too much about food, and they work hard to make money just to earn fodder for the donkey and pay the rent.

I buy food just because I'm greedy.

Disguising himself as an ordinary person, he only lets people know that he is a man of some strength when transporting goods, and lives a very low-key life. As long as no trouble comes to him, Lu Bian does not want to show any strong power.

Shi Tianwu: [Lubian, do you still want to continue your practice? ]

Roadside: [Of course I do.]

Shi Tianwu: [I have a good idea.]

Roadside: [Tell me, do we brothers still need to beat around the bush?]

Shi Tianwu: [You should become a stonemason and learn how to carve something out of it with a chisel.]

Roadside: [Stonemason, I understand.]

Shi Tianwu: [You don't have to find a master to be an apprentice. I have uploaded the knowledge related to stonemasonry to the group.]

Roadside: [Brother, are you tired of me doing hard labor? So you want to change my job?]

Shi Tianwu: [No, I don't mind you transporting goods all day, I just think you're bored.]

Roadside: [It's definitely boring, but it's also a bit fun. Listening to the boatmen at the port talk about what's happening elsewhere, I feel like I'm getting firsthand information about this era.]

Lubian: [I have downloaded it...]

Roadside: [I don’t know if I can make money as a stonemason.]

Stonemason, Lubian didn't know much about the work of stonemasons in the Song Dynasty and the wages they could earn.

However, after he learned about it, he felt that Shi Tianwu's advice to him was extremely correct.

A stonemason's job involves working with various types of stone. Carving stone statues and inscriptions are examples of stonemasonry.

The Song Dynasty had a huge demand for this kind of work, so Lubian plunged into the stonemason industry.

The things that the stupid donkey carried turned into stone. Every day, he would leave his home on the roadside to find stones outside Tokyo and bring them back home for carving.

During the day, when the neighbor next door went out to work at sunrise, the sound of chisels and stones colliding began to be heard from his yard on the roadside. The crisp sound only stopped when the sun set in the evening.

At first, Lubian couldn't control the force well, and a big crack was chiseled out in the stone in a few strokes. The stone was not completely wasted, so Lubian changed the stone and continued to chisel.

It wasn't long before the small courtyard was filled with stones. The waste stones were not useless. In the prosperous metropolis of Tokyo, everything could be sold and there were people who needed everything. The middlemen who contacted the brokerage firms on the roadside sold the waste stones.

Before a stonemason becomes proficient in his craft, he can earn a little money working on the roadside.

How long would it take him to hone his stonemasonry skills to perfection?
Two months is enough.

But for Shi Tianwu, this "cultivation" is just the entry level.

A skilled stonemason can carve stones for construction, but Shi Tianwu requires that the stonemasons on the roadside be able to carve them into sculptures and become sculptors.

What can be cultivated by using stone carving to train magnetic field power?

The answer is [Perfect Realm].

Magnetic field power is a comprehensive power system that not only improves a person's combat effectiveness, but also improves his thinking ability.

Every person with a strong magnetic field is a magnetic field scientist and possesses thinking abilities that surpass those of ordinary people.

Three months later, Lu Bian's complete realm had greatly improved. His unparalleled stonemasonry skills far surpassed other stonemasons in the entire Tokyo metropolitan area.

Shi Tianwu was somewhat satisfied with the stone statues carved by Lubian, so he prepared to show his amazing stone art to the people of Song Dynasty!

He wants to be famous on the roadside.

Only with a reputation can people come to him and give him stonemasonry work and money.

Lubian left Tokyo and went to the mountains to find a large and fine stone. When he found the material, Lubian put the stone down on the road leading to Tokyo and carved it into a Buddha statue right next to the road.

I have seen temples from all over the Song Dynasty on the roadside. The statues of gods and Buddhas in Taoist temples are either clay sculptures, wood carvings or stone statues.

The Song Dynasty government strictly prohibited the public from making statues with gold and iron.

"Ah?" Passersby were very curious about the stone statues carved on the roadside.

"Whose statue is this?"

"Look at that shape, it seems to be a statue of Bodhisattva."

"The Bodhisattva must be Guanyin, the one who saves the suffering!"

What he carved on the roadside was indeed a stone statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Day after day, he carved the sculptures on the roads leading to and from Tokyo. Passersby stopped to watch, and even people from Tokyo came out of town to see the novelty...

Fame gradually grew on the roadside.

A strange man built a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva on the road outside Tokyo. The stone statue of Bodhisattva became more lively day by day, with lowered brows, kind eyes and a smile on the corners of its mouth, which made people unable to help but worship it.

Why did people choose Guanyin Bodhisattva on the roadside?

He thought that he had traveled through time and space to Guanyin Temple, and Sister Guanyin should not mind him.

(End of this chapter)

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